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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
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Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
36 vs 60
Hardware Fit
100 vs 90
Quality Score
8 vs 47

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M5 MaxCortex-A78AE
Cores186
RAM64 GB7 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec55.234.6
First chunk210 ms5314 ms
TTFT210 ms5.3 s
Load time4.8 s5.1 s
Memory usage0.9 GB1.1 GB
Memory %2%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
10/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen36-distill-apex

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
4/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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